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Breaking changes
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- Drop support for Python versions older than 3.8. Most notably, this means
that Python 2.7 is not supported anymore either.

Improvements
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- Build process modernization:

- Use ``pyproject.toml`` instead of ``setup.py``.
- Use modern ``setuptools_scm`` version (fixes `15`_).

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- Set minium required Python version in package metadata.

This is the last version supporting Python 2.7.

**Note:** Code for this release can be found on branch ``python2-legacy``,
although the only thing that changed in this release is the package metadata.

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- Compatibility with Python 3.10. (`10`_)
- Documentation improvements. (`13`_)
- Support decoding surrogate pairs on narrow Python builds (such as
Python 2.7 on Mac OS X). (`14`_)

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- Add support for optional documentation comments (see `Documenting
Properties`_). Thanks to mkrohan! (`5`_)

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- **Python 3 support!** Thanks to tboz203, who did a lot of the work. (`1`_)
- Drop support for Python 2.6.

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- This is the first "proper" PyPI release, with proper PyPI metadata and proper
PyPI distributions. Nothing else has changed.